The author joined Merrill Lynch in 2007 after playing in the NFL and running a mortgage group. He found success managing wealth for young athletes. When markets declined in 2007, he advised clients to take larger cash and bond positions, which paid off. He developed a unique strategy of using certain life insurance products for retirement that provide downside protection, liquidity, and tax benefits. He recommends young investors consider including life insurance in their retirement planning alongside 401ks.
Juliet Hougland, Data Scientist, Cloudera at MLconf NYCMLconf
Matrix Decomposition at Scale: Matrix decomposition is an incredibly common task in machine learning, appearing everywhere including recommendation algorithms (SVD++), dimensionality reduction (PCA), and natural language processing (Latent Semantic Analysis) . Many well-known existing libraries can compute matrix decompositions when matrices fit in memory on a single machine. When the matrix no longer fits in memory and distributed computation is required, the computations becomes more complex and the details of the implementation become much more important. In this talk I will focus on the three major open source implementations of distributed eigen/singular value decomposition– LanczosSolver and StochasticSVD in Mahout and the SVD implementation in Spark MLLib. I will discuss the tradeoffs of of these implementations from the perspective of real world performance (beyond big-o notation for flops) and accuracy. I will conclude with some guidelines for choosing which implementation to use based on accuracy, performance, and scale requirements.
Juliet Hougland, Data Scientist, Cloudera at MLconf NYCMLconf
Matrix Decomposition at Scale: Matrix decomposition is an incredibly common task in machine learning, appearing everywhere including recommendation algorithms (SVD++), dimensionality reduction (PCA), and natural language processing (Latent Semantic Analysis) . Many well-known existing libraries can compute matrix decompositions when matrices fit in memory on a single machine. When the matrix no longer fits in memory and distributed computation is required, the computations becomes more complex and the details of the implementation become much more important. In this talk I will focus on the three major open source implementations of distributed eigen/singular value decomposition– LanczosSolver and StochasticSVD in Mahout and the SVD implementation in Spark MLLib. I will discuss the tradeoffs of of these implementations from the perspective of real world performance (beyond big-o notation for flops) and accuracy. I will conclude with some guidelines for choosing which implementation to use based on accuracy, performance, and scale requirements.
BoyarMiller's State of the Capital Markets eBookBoyarMiller
As part of its ongoing Breakfast Forum series, BoyarMiller hosted three financial experts for a moderated discussion on The Current State of the Capital Markets 2019. The panelists were: Kamden D. Kanaly, CFP®, Chairman, KDK Private Wealth Management; John Sarvadi, Executive Managing Director, Corporate Banking, Texas Capital Bank; and Scott D. Winship, Managing Director, GulfStar Group Investment Bankers.
BoyarMiller Breakfast Forum: The Current State of the Capital Markets 2017BoyarMiller
As part of its ongoing Breakfast Forum series, BoyarMiller gathered industry experts for a moderated discussion on the Current State of the Capital Markets. Speakers included Matt Anstead with EV Private Equity, Ali Nasser with AltruVista and Bill Pyle with Texas Capital Bank.
Kimble Johnson • LPL Financial
- Does your investing suffer from a lack of dimensionality? by Jerry Wagner
- Bright spots on the housing front
- Opening the 401(k) door (Daniel Namey, H. Beck, Inc.)
BoyarMiller's State of the Capital Markets eBookBoyarMiller
As part of its ongoing Breakfast Forum series, BoyarMiller hosted three financial experts for a moderated discussion on The Current State of the Capital Markets 2019. The panelists were: Kamden D. Kanaly, CFP®, Chairman, KDK Private Wealth Management; John Sarvadi, Executive Managing Director, Corporate Banking, Texas Capital Bank; and Scott D. Winship, Managing Director, GulfStar Group Investment Bankers.
BoyarMiller Breakfast Forum: The Current State of the Capital Markets 2017BoyarMiller
As part of its ongoing Breakfast Forum series, BoyarMiller gathered industry experts for a moderated discussion on the Current State of the Capital Markets. Speakers included Matt Anstead with EV Private Equity, Ali Nasser with AltruVista and Bill Pyle with Texas Capital Bank.
Kimble Johnson • LPL Financial
- Does your investing suffer from a lack of dimensionality? by Jerry Wagner
- Bright spots on the housing front
- Opening the 401(k) door (Daniel Namey, H. Beck, Inc.)